Discipline me like Normal, God!

Hebrews 12:4

The Message (MSG)

^4-11 In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children?

My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline,
    but don’t be crushed by it either.
It’s the child he loves that he disciplines;
    the child he embraces, he also corrects.

God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.

----- I was having a conversation with one of my male cousins and we touched on the word normal. I use the word in many phases but this time we were talking about faith. He was not in agreement that faith based life could be consider normal. I however do, so I looked up the word and the definition that closely fits my thought of the word and it says as an adjective: 

1.conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.2.serving to establish a standard.

Standard, what a word a rule or principle that is used as a basis for judgment. Our walk with God should be normal a standard! Amen! 

I should accept that all know and have been touched by the lord in some form or another! Amen

It should be normal to be tested and discipline us cause we are and having choosing to be follower(children) of the lord.